Down and Out in Paris and London

Informationen zum Autor Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell , was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia . Klappentext George Orwell's first published work, Down and Out in Paris and London, is a vivid, sensitive account of the time he lived as one of the poor in the late twenties. In a bug-infested hotel, surviving only between the pawnbroker and a little teaching and writing, Orwell shocked the middle-class establishment with his observation of the misery, the hopelessness and the despair of the poor of a previously unexplored Paris and London. Zusammenfassung Deals with the underworld of society. In this book, the author documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and more.

Product details

• Authors: George Orwell
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.09.2001
• EAN: 9780141184388
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118438-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics Paperbacks; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; MC NF (ENGLISH); Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; MC NF (ENGLISH)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, France, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Poverty & unemployment, Social and cultural history, Paris (City), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Biography: writers, Classic Travel Writing, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness